The home is in our partnership LLC name as well.  

You are looking down a path well traveled and your criteria will be easily achieved! 

The information contained in this post is not to be relied upon.

The borrower's financials play a big part as well.

In other words held for steady cash flow.My VARIABLE (note) PORTFOLIO consists of more active/speculative notes - non performing notes I purchased at discount to principal owed; notes I hope to “work” for enhanced ROI, real property I “purchased” with a leaseback option to repurchase, and defaulted notes I purchased planning on eventually taking ownership of the real estate, as well as notes I created that don’t have current payments but provide a guaranteed return plus an equity “kicker” when the property is sold. 

I assume many people here do their own cleaning when they got started so maybe it’s well known by people who aren’t me?

Thanks in adavance for the information! 

Popular markets near us appear to be the hudson valley, adirondacks, finger lakes (although it seems STR's are under fire there), and even the cape cod area as we have vacationed there a lot and know the area fairly well.   

I would greatly appreciate any guidance or experiences you can share to help me make an informed decision.

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